It is hard to guess what a Brush-tailed phascogale weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa) on average weights 193 grams (0.43 lbs).
The Brush-tailed phascogale is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Phascogale). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.8 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Brush-tailed phascogales can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 6.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), also known by its Australian native name tuan, the common wambenger or the black-tailed phascogale, is a rat-sized arboreal carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, characterized by a tuft of black silky hairs on the terminal portion of its tail. Males of this species do not live past the age of one, as they die after reproducing.
Animals of the same family as a Brush-tailed phascogale
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
- Agile antechinus with a weight of 22 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 53 grams
- Fawn antechinus with a weight of 38 grams
- Dibbler with a weight of 72 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 112 grams
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with a weight of 36 grams
- Stripe-faced dunnart with a weight of 24 grams
- New Guinean quoll with a weight of 611 grams
- Paucident planigale with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brush-tailed phascogale
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phascogale tapoatafa:
- Northeast African mole-rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Felou gundi bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Holochilus chacarius bringing 204 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed antsangy bringing 219 grams to the scale
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat bringing 215 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s hedgehog bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Annandale’s rat bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Plains pocket gopher bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Earless water rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Brush-tailed phascogale
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Brush-tailed phascogale:
- Long-tailed weasel
- Arctic ground squirrel
- Northern quoll
- Mindoro black rat
- Raccoon dog
- Eurasian water shrew
- Big-eared opossum
- Eligmodontia typus
- Common shrew
- South African pouched mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brush-tailed phascogale
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brush-tailed phascogale:
- Banded hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Sandhill dunnart with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Gansu pika with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Collared pika with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Canyon bat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Mountain pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 5 years